Re: new computer buying
- From: Jean Menzies <jemenzies@xxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:21:48 -0600
Hi Sean
Thanks for that tidbit of information. Now I know how to relate the bus
speed number. Hard drive speed, I'm looking at 7200.
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean M McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: new computer buying
> Wow my 400 mhz computer seems really old, untill about a month ago I had
> xp-pro running on a 450. For newness I see your point. If you get a fast
> processor get it with a faster hardrive. Get a faster processor with a
> faster buss speed. If you see something like 2.0GHZ with 500MHZ buss,
> that's ok. You probably don't need to know what the buss is, but you
> won't get any increase in performance from a processor unless your buss
> speed is 1/4 of your processor speed. This is just going off of some
> advise I got from a guy at ibm about 5 years ago, so take it for what it's
> worth. I know that a friend of mine runns a computer with twice the
> processor speed as mine same buss speed and there's little difference.
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